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The Rising and Thriving Podcast
Welcome to The Rising & Thriving Podcast—the podcast for high-functioning men who feel emotionally drained, stuck, or broken by life’s hardest seasons.
Hosted by therapist, coach, and father Yves Mukanya, each episode offers raw stories, mindset shifts, and tools to help you rise from divorce, burnout, and identity loss—and rebuild your life with clarity, confidence, and conviction.
Topics include:
- Divorce recovery & emotional healing
- Purpose after burnout
- Fatherhood, masculinity, and mental health
- Building a meaningful life after everything falls apart
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The Rising and Thriving Podcast
How Rock Bottom Can Become the Beginning of Your Breakthrough – With Amy Dawns (EP10 Part 1)
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In this powerful and vulnerable conversation, Amy Dawns takes us on a journey through pain, healing, and profound self-discovery. She opens up about the hardships she faced after her son’s birth—including severe health complications and a crumbling marriage—and how those experiences forced her to confront shame, anxiety, and a fractured sense of self-worth.
Through that adversity, Amy found her way to healing—not through a straight line, but through creativity, spirituality, and radical self-responsibility. She shares how writing and painting became tools for emotional liberation, leading to the creation of the True Colors Body Painting process—a transformational experience that helps individuals, especially men, reconnect with themselves and their truth.
Together, we explore the deep connection between parent and child, the emotional weight of co-parenting after divorce, and the silent battle many face around vulnerability and identity. Amy sheds light on post-traumatic growth and how even the darkest seasons can become the soil for deep personal transformation.
This episode is a call to remember: your pain doesn't define you—it prepares you. And healing begins when we stop running and start honoring the truth of who we are.
Guest: Amy Dawns
Website: https://www.amydawns.com
The Broken Man Poem: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1jizqNmFdjQTRT4oi9Yeim?si=XJ2OOsaKS8SXLI0deWX_kw&nd=1&dlsi=a748af6c4ee24672
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